Author: Claire Wallace

Here are 25 sports medicine updates from the first four months of 2024: 

San Jose, Calif.-based Good Samaritan Hospital has completed its first procedure using the Excelsius GPS robotic system, according to an April LinkedIn post. 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center has added robotic partial, total and revision knee replacements, according to a May 3 report from The Dispatch. 

Physicians who specialize in orthopedic surgery have the opportunity to earn more than $400,000 annually in 10 metropolitan areas of the U.S., according to data from the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics employment survey, which was published April 3. 

Novant Health orthopedic surgeon Brandon Valentine, MD, has been tapped as the system's new greater Charlotte market orthopedic surgery institute leader, according to a May 3 email shared with Becker's. 

World Wrestling Entertainment star Braun Strowman underwent spinal fusion surgery for his C4 and C5 vertebrae at Birmingham, Ala.-based Andrews Sports Medicine, according to a May 2 report from Wrestling Inc. 

Paul Chin, MD, PhD, an orthopedic surgeon at The Woodlands, Texas-based Sterling Ridge Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, has become the first in the state to use Medacta's NextAR shoulder augmented reality surgical platform.

Kentucky has become the first state in the U.S. to enact a law decriminalizing medical errors, according to an April 23 report from NPR affiliate WKYU.

Zimmer Biomet has struck a partnership with three of the top pickleball organizations in the U.S., becoming the first and only medical device partner within pickleball. 

Zimmer Biomet saw $1.89 billion in net sales in the first quarter of 2024, according to its 2024 financial report, published May 2.